PULSE
This series of five movement research and training sessions, led by Daniela Marcozzi, is conceived as a research field, a space of freedom — a space to surrender to artistic and creative processes, and to be carried into their essence.
The sessions integrate different performative and somatic practices, including embodiment techniques, movement research, dance, physical theatre, writing, and composition.
The sessions unfold as processes between opposing forces:
Attachment ○ detachment
Contraction ○ elongation
Effortlessness ○ intention
Pollution ○ purity
Human ○ more-than-human
Waves ○ particles
These polarities intersect fluidly throughout the sessions. For each pair, the range of stages in between are explored, in order to sense in the body a dynamic process of encounter between opposites — a process that supports and nourishes creative work.
WORK OF ART AS RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FORCES
Pulse is also a way of looking at a work of art as a relationship between forces, rather than as a product.
Pulse is a vital dynamic.
An alternation between states.
A continuous oscillation between contraction and release, gathering and letting go.
In the human body, pulse lives in the heartbeat — an endless dialogue between tension and openness. It moves through blood pressure, through breath, through the subtle expansion and softening of tissues. It is present in the nervous system, in attention that sharpens and dissolves, in energy that rises and settles.
Pulse unfolds across living ecosystems.
In the tides that advance and retreat.
In the cycles of day and night, growth and decay, saturation and emptiness.
In the migration of animals, in seasonal rhythms, in the constant exchange between stability and transformation.
Pulse connects opposite states without separating them.
It allows movement between poles and circulation between forces. A vital dynamic where life does not remain fixed, but continuously reorganizes itself through rhythm.
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A focus of the research lies in expanding perception beyond the classical narrative of the five senses. The work explores subtle modes of sensing, non-verbal perception, and energetic states of the body; the body is approached as a sensitive territory — capable of perceiving, relating, and creating beyond the habitual sensory understand of the five senses.
This work is open to performing artists, performers, dancers, movers, somatic practitioners, and to anyone interested in physical expression, embodied research, perceptual awareness, and individual and collective dynamics of expression.
A willingness to engage in creative exploration, physical listening, and self-awareness is essential.
CALENDAR AND LOGISTICS
8.04
15.04
22.04
29.04
06.05
H 18:15 - 20:00
The exact location will be communicated via email. It will be in Berlin Mitte.
Fee
Price 5 sessions: 95 Euro
Price 3 session: 70 Euro (you can choose the 3 session to attend)
* Prices are not refundable, but we can find solutions to recuperate eventual absences within other training programs by Marcozzi Contemporary Theater.
** We offer soli-spots and discounted prices for people living in a financially precarious situation, just drop a line to daniela.marcozzi@gmail.com , we’ll find a solution.